STATE OF INDUSTRY 2022-05-19

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is the City agency responsible for regulating for-hire transportation in New York City, including yellow taxis, street hail liveries (green taxis), high-volume for-hire services such as Uber and Lyft, other for-hire vehicles such as black cars, luxury limousines, and livery vehicles, as well as commuter vans and paratransit vehicles. TLC licenses about 175,000 drivers, 115,000 cars, and 1,000 businesses, which together transport more than a million passengers a day, making TLC the most active for-hire transportation regulatory agency globally with oversight of a critical component of the City’s transportation network.

In this book each tab is a separate report with a different focus. Each report compares data to the previous month and year. Below, you will find short descriptions of each report in this book.

Monthly Trips Report displays monthly trip trends by industries, which are further split by sub-industries.
There are two parts to this report:
A) The right side of the report displays a list of value boxes showing monthly trip numbers by industry category. The numbers cover
April, 2022 , and are compared to March, 2022 and April, 2021.This includes all industries except traditional FHVs, which cover March, 2022 and are compared to February, 2022 and March, 2021.
B) The left side of the report displays overall trends of the industries and sub-industries. . The data are split by months and looks back as far as the month and year TLC began collecting that particular data set.

Borough Trip Stats Report displays total trip counts by location and industry.
These visualizations show where different industries tend to operate.
A) The pies below display industry trip shares by borough.
B) The map on the right displays how many trips happened by borough. Each borough displays its trip count for April, 2022 , and compares those trips to March, 2022 and April, 2021
C) NOTE: Location data submitted to TLC by traditional FHV bases can not be verified and therefore are not reflected in this report.

The High-Volume-For-Hire Services Wait Times Report displays wait time by location for the HVFHV industry.
Wait times is a very useful metric in determining supply and demand in different areas of the city.
A) The table below displays wait times for HVFHV by taxi zones. Data is indicated in descending order, displaying the longest wait times first. The graph below the table reflects changes in average wait time, aggregated monthly.
B) The map on the right is a visual representation of the table below. The darker the color, the longer the wait time in each taxi zone.

Monthly Crash Report displays crash, injury, and fatality counts by month and industry. This section is a visual representation of the data required by Local Law 31, which is posted on TLC’s website.
Crash and injury data takes into account the number of vehicles operating within each industry.
A) The value boxes on the right compare the latest data to the previous month and year. The graphs display temporal trends.
B) The pies below represent share of accidents by industry, per 100 vehicles.